[Soekris] net4801 bridging firewalls benchmarks results

[Massimo Lusetti]

On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 01:17 -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote:

> Anyways, the OpenBSD driver is very similar to the FreeBSD one, as that's
> where it's derived from.  The problem isn't the driver, it's that the OpenBSD
> ip forwarding code path isn't quite as optimized for packet forwarding
> as FreeBSD has done.  Polling helps as well, but I don't see why using
> setting Interrupt Hold-Off register doesn't produce results identical to
> polling, given similar parameters.  (If someone could explain what is probably
> blatantly obvious to them about the differences, I would appreciate it.)

Right, i would like to hear that too. Some one who knows Soekris boards,
polling techniques and drivers interrupt handling could shed some
lights.

Anyway, did you try to use brad@ patch to OpenBSD sis driver which try
to use interrupt hold-off ?
If you can't find it in the archive, shot me an email I'll forward you.

I would also like to see test result with OpenBSD 3.8 since the idle
loop fix produced at hackaton didn't go in 3.7 (short time) and probably
it could help in here.

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